Wrongs Quotes by Carrie Chapman Catt

For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

— Carrie Chapman Catt